Click to play videoMumbai: Senior police officer Hemant Karkare, who was killed during the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on November 26, wore a bulletproof that offered him absolutely no protection.
CNN-IBN has learnt this after accessing the autopsy report of Karkare, who was chief of Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).
The autopsy report says there were eight bullet marks on Karkare's body: four on the top of the right shoulder, one in on the back of the right shoulder and three on the right chest. One bullet was found in his left kidney and another in the right of his liver.
The bullets in the ATS chief’s body make it clear that the bulletproof jacket he was wearing did not offer him protection.
CNN-IBN, earlier on Wednesday, had reported that the Maharashtra government has told Karkare's wife the jacket was misplaced on the night of November 26 and has now been declared lost.
Kavita Karkare filed an Right to Information Act Application asking for information about her husband’s bulletproof jacket, but the Maharashtra government has now told her that the jacket was misplaced.
CNN-IBN, in an earlier report, had found that samples of the bullet jackets failed trials at a police firing range in 2004. The jackets were fitted on dummies and sprayed with bullets from self-loading rifles and AK-47s. Every single bullet went through the jackets even though the rounds were fired from a distance.
Karkare, Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte and Inspector Vijay Salaskar were killed by terrorists near Cama hospital on the night of November 26 when they were chasing terrorists.
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